Unfortunately the piracy scene doesn't seem to be as cohesive as it used to be - the x264 standards are years old now and I haven't even seen whispers of a HEVC

Unfortunately the piracy scene doesn't seem to be as cohesive as it used to be - the x264 standards are years old now and I haven't even seen whispers of a HEVC standard. You really don't want joe-random-encoder running ffmpeg with some copy-pasted parameters to become the defacto standard.